vi vs emacs in a student environment

[Timothy Reed]

In article <6056 at megaron.arizona.edu> lm at megaron.arizona.edu (Larry McVoy) writes:
>In article <11418 at steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen at crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>>In article <399 at cantuar.UUCP> paul at cantuar.UUCP (P. Ashton) writes:
>>| We are in the middle of deciding which editor to teach students next
>>| year, and are looking at vi and emacs. We have a couple of questions

>As a consultant I'll volunteer the following advice:  don't get people used to
>emacs.  Please.  Why?  Because emacs is available on "some" unix machines.  
>Vi is available on almost all unix machines.

This is very true.  We use an old INteractive editor called INed here
(now called tenplus on NCR towers), as well as some of their email,
networking and printer software, and I feel very sorry for people that
learn unix skills here based on their experiences with these pretty
site-specific applications - it's going to be really hard for them to
deal with the rest of the unix world since they'll bring very little
useful experience to their next jobs.  (however, since INteractive now
owns nroff and troff, maybe theirs are the true standards of tomorrow -:)

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